The Hungry Bear

Should We Shake off the Slumber?

Photo by Chris Geirman on Unsplash

Mid March is when the residents of my part of New England are supposed to take in their bird feeders. I don’t have bird feeders anymore because I keep bees and wound up with a borderline “nuisance bear” last year.

According to Fish and Game, last Fall wasn’t good for bears. There was a food dearth due in part to a bad acorn crop. The bears went into hibernation underweight. The talk at the convenience store is that they are going to wake up hungry.

We have had a long dearth on Medium too, I’m afraid. I went into the fall hungry. I woke up hungry too.

Luckily, as I started to rouse from my winter stupor, I found some good things to eat.

There was a fun exchange I had with Mark Starlin at the bottom of this post:

I Am Phineas Phiddlephaddle

Thanks to an invocation by Stephen M. Tomic.

Then, this morning I found a reaction to the awful shooting in New Zealand by Christchurch resident Arin Basu. His post is everything good that Medium can offer in the face of bad events. I have followed him for a long…